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William Gurstelle For More Information Call: 651-735-2080
Bill delivers positive change! Bill has always believed that the way to measure the performance of a speaker is by what the audience does differently after they go home and to work. By focusing on the needs of engineers, scientists, and other technical workers, Bill’s programs benefit any group that uses, makes, designs, or improves technology. Bill’s message comes from a career spent exploring both the mainstream and fringes of technology. Bill’s talks and workshops: • improve teamwork by enabling people to better understand and build upon coworkers' capabilities and ways of working • teach new approaches to creativity and use those ideas to design better products and services • offer a research-based approach to risk taking that empowers people to generate better solutions to difficult problems Areas of Expertise: Computers / Technology Fees: Keynote up to 90 minutes: $1,500 Half day fee up to 3 hours: $1,500 + workshop materials cost, if any Full day fee up to 6 hours: $2,100 + workshop materials cost, if any William's Most Requested Programs: The Art of Living Dangerously The ELRI Theory of Creativity Building Bridges Testimonials: "I am writing to let you know how much we appreciated the workshop you led, and the talk you gave, at the Gel 2008 conference here in New York City. You were a hit! Attendees said "awesome" and "cool" in their feedback on your workshop. We're looking forward to having you back.", Mark Hurst, Founder and Host, Gel conference. "On behalf of Sixth Star Entertainment we would like to take the time to recognize what a fantastic job you do for us each and every time you speak for us. Your talks are lively, entertaining and thought provoking and are very well received by audiences.", Anne Briggs, Manager of Entertainment Programs, Sixth Star Entertainment and Marketing. "Bill Gurstelle delights audiences with his love of making things. Bill understands that creativity and inventiveness relies on a maker space readily available with the tools to build what the mind conjures up, and his message was perfectly in tune with our audience's needs.", Leigh Estabrooks, Invention Educations Officer, Lemelson-MIT Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Bill is an engaging speaker who really connected with our audience. His presentations are informative and entertaining, and we're looking forward to working with him again in the future.", Dale Dougherty, General Manager, Maker Media Division, 0'Reilly Media.
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William Gurstelle is one of the gurus and pioneers of the rapidly growing Maker Movement. A big tent, the movement embraces geeks, hackers, engineers, scientists, tinkerers and anybody else with ideas about how to turn something old, broken, or boring into something interesting and useful. Bill is a best selling author, licensed engineer, inveterate tinkerer, and professional speaker. Having sold more than 250,000 books, William is likely the most widely read author of "how-to” science books in the world. He is a producer and on-air talent for PBS' Make: Television and is a contributing editor and columnist at Make: Magazine. |
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To receive more information, testimonials, packets, and/or a video - or if you would like to talk directly to William Gurstelle about how he would fit with the event you are planning - Call the staff at MinnesotaSpeakers.com today.
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